There’s a press conference on Thursday which will probably mean even more names will be announced before tickets go on sale on Friday. Lets hope MCD also announce what days the likes of Blur and The Specials are playing so people can buy one-day tickets if they’re the only acts they want to see. Surely in these recessionary times, MCD wouldn’t try to get people to buy weekend tickets by with-holding that information, eh?

Makes you wonder, though, just what the Electric Picnic have up their sleeves to counteract all that, bar the fact that you won’t get The Kids in Stradbally. Somehow, that unique selling point may not be enough this year.